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Explosion rips through Pennsylvania nursing home

Firefighters work at the site after a gas explosion caused a partial building collapse at the Silver Lake Nursing Home in Bristol, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 23, 2025. REUTERS/Bastiaan Slabbers

Who is left, when illness takes away your mind or body?

A sense of self can drive survival and live on in memories.

MediFund gave over $165m in assistance to needy Singaporeans in last financial year

MediFund helps needy Singaporean patients who are unable to afford their medical bills after government subsidies.

Thailand to airlift critical patients as southern floods kill 33

Members of a volunteer team evacuate a resident from her home, which is partially submerged in a flooded area in Hat Yai district, affected by heavy rainfall, which has impacted several provinces in southern Thailand and has killed several people, in Songkhla province, Thailand, November 25, 2025. REUTERS/Sithichai Chootochana

As US migration rates drop, life on the San Diego border has changed

Migrants, who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and were detained and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, gather at a transit station as they plan to travel across the country from the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California, U.S., September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Community hospital uses old MRT train carriage, public bus and taxi for patients’ rehabilitation

Galvin Tan, senior occupational therapist (left) and Keen Austria, senior physiotherapist with the decommissioned taxi and bus that are used to train caregivers and patients at St. Andrew's Community Hospital (Bedok) on Nov 17, 2025.

How kidney dialysis takes a toll on one patient’s life and work

Mr Lim Chee Meng, 55, at NKF Aljunied on Nov 1.

A silent killer: Half of kidney failure cases in S’pore could have been prevented, says doc

Dr Arjunan Kumaran, 34, with his patient, Mr Syafic Bin Omar, 40, at Intemedical Tampines on Oct 28.

German nurse given life sentence for murdering 10 patients

The accused former nurse hiding his face behind a folder next to his lawyer, Mr Volker Breyer (right), as he arrives in court on Nov 5.

The Congolese amputee giving new prosthetic limbs to the wounded

Ortho-prosthetist Wivine Kavira Mukata, 28, prepares the prosthesis mold for Ajuamungu Kikoba, 17, a patient who came to the Shirika la Umoja orthopedic center for a prosthesis change in Goma, North Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, August 20, 2025. Kikoba lost her leg in the clashes between M23 rebels and the Congolese army. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi

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